onsdag 11 mars 2009
Assignment 2
Feel-good-feeling
What makes me love watching TV-series? And why do I love the series I follow?
When I was I child I had a friend who had moved with her family to Karlstad from Uppsala. You can call them an intellectual family. I experienced a cultural chock and I am sure of that they felt the same. My friend´s family had a little TV behind a sofa. They only took the TV out sometimes to look at the news. The family walked around bare foot reading Svenska dagbladet, while my family had both large TV and even a VCR with remote control. Our family gathered around the TV watching Dallas, Falcon Crest, Little house on the prairie and Fame.
I think you can´t see this difference as clear today as for over twenty years ago. All social groups have a lot of technique today, I think. It doesn’t matter if you are high educated, upper class or working class; you have at least one TV. The fortunate ones have a flat screen hanging like a piece of art to frame a kind of hotel-lobby feeling.
I do not have a flat screen hanging on my wall, but we do have two big and thick TVs. Mostly my husband and our children gather around just one TV. I like the feeling of watching TV together in our sofa. Even though conversation is out of focus, I still think it is pretty social sitting close together and getting body-contact. When my family is sitting together it is mostly entertainment shows such as Let´s dance we are watching. We talk about the dancer´s clothes and performances. That kind of shows gives us a happy feeling.
When I can choose TV-series by myself I choose Desperate housewives, Men in trees, Lipstick jungle. One of my favorites, which has ended, is American dreams. All of these series turns to a female audience, I think. Desperate housewives is in my opinion absolutely fantastic with very different female characters who all have their own problems and methods dealing with their issues. Desperate housewives fascionates me because sometimes I laugh watching it and in the same episode I can also get a little frightened or even burst into tears. The creators of the series have done a fantastic work finding all the right elements to create all of these moods and settings. As you may understand, Desperate housewives has really made an impact on me.
Men in trees is a feel-good-series with nice and warm characters. Lipstick jungle is more city-chic New York story. Even though American dreams isn’t broadcasted anymore I can´t leave that series out. It is a TV-series about the Pryor family living in Philadelphia in the nineteen sixties. The series contains a lot of American history such as Kennedy being shot, first moon-landing, racism and much more. The Pryor family is warm with high moral. It has been wonderful following this made up family through the nineteen sixties. I am dreadfully sorry I can´t see them anymore.
To summarize my thoughts; What makes me love these TV-series? I think these TV-series touch my heart and mostly leave me with a feel-good-feeling. I also believe I can identify with some of the characters while other characters are more chic and elegant which gives my structured life some glamour. In our stressed lifestyle I think it is important to not underestimate TVs ability to just step into another world while relaxing in a sofa irrespective of you are alone or with friends or family. Lean back, relax and enjoy!
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Hi Camilla,
SvaraRaderaI find your writing very good and the message clear. Your paragraphs are not to long, nor are they to short. This makes your text easy to follow.
I find the things you say very interesting and I could easily have written the same thing myself, which meens that the grade of recognition in your text is high and that is a really good thing that the reader can fins things to relate to.
I can't find anything to comment negatively on so all I can say is that you should keep up the good work and see you in Karlstad next time!
Best regards,
Linda
Dear Camilla,
SvaraRaderaThanks for a well-structured and interesting blog! You start out with a question which you then answer in your final paragraph. Nice touch! I also like how you end your text with a suggestion that reduces any kinds of anxiety the reader might experience when it comes to his/her TV habits.
When it comes to the beginning of your text, I think it would have been better if you had made your questions into a paragraph, adding a bit more text to it. As to the bulk of your paragraphs, your reader would have benefitted from more clear-cut topic sentences. You do have one in your last paragraph, however, and it is very informative! There are two paragraphs where you talk about some of the TV series you like to watch, and I think it might have been better to join them up into one single paragraph since they deal with the same thought.
When it comes to links, you might want to look at the handout with links again and, for next time, see if you can make more use of them.
As regards language, there are a few things you might want to think about. Make sure that there is subject-verb agreement! This means that in “All of these series turns to a female audience” you have a plural subject and therefore need to say “turn”. In “I am sure of that they felt” you should avoid using ”that” after a preposition. Also, think about the use of articles, as in “my family had both large TV”, where you should write ”a large TV”. Think about when to use adverbs, as in “you can´t see this difference as clear today”, where “clear” defines the verb “see” and therefore should be an adverb: clearly. Moreover, be aware of the difference between “for 20 years” and “20 years ago” – “for” is only used in the first sense = “i tjugo år”. Think about the position of the apostrophe in “the dancer´s clothes” – I suppose you mean dancers’ (in the plural!).
Best,
Marika